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• The Democrat Whores of the Senate Get Bribes for Healthcare

  —Bear Creek Ledger

  You didn’t really think they were going to vote on principle or something so simple minded as that did you? Aside from the fact that this was never about healthcare or healthcare insurance. It’s about money, power and control of the Americans. It’s about taking away American liberty and freedom. Just [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 7:47am EST
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• Who's Meaner, Insurance Bureaucrats or Government Bureaucrats?

  —Power Line

  I've never understood why liberals think that entrusting their health care to government employees will result in more generous or compassionate treatment. Insurance companies have to compete, after all, while there is only one federal government. Now, the Independent Institute cites data from the American Medical Association's National Health' [...]

  Posted: December 20, 2009, 7:54pm EST
  

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• What would Wellstone do?

  —SCSUScholars

  Democratic Sen. Al Franken took the unusual step Thursday of shutting down Sen. Joe Lieberman on the Senate floor.
  
  Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, currently is the target of liberal wrath over his opposition to a government-run insurance plan in the health care bill.
  
  Franken was presiding over the [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 5:27pm EST
  

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• What about Ben? Part Two

  —Power Line

  Senator Ben Nelson says he's not on board the latest incarnation of health care reform legislation. Nelson objects to the fact that the current proposal does not contain the language he wants with respect to abortion -- language that would preclude those receiving federal health-insurance subsidies from being' [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 10:35pm EST
  

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• Best sentence I read today

  —SCSUScholars

  Instead, if you think in terms of "how can we optimally regulate so that banks have only incentives to do great things and no incentives to take excess risk," you are on the wrong track.From Arnold Kling, who argues that if you cannot imagine a world without deposit insurance [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 5:46pm EST
  

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• Your fever is a little less today

  —SCSUScholars

  That's a variation of a line I used on a reporter today discussing a local unemployment insurance claims, but it would also apply to the retail sales figures released this morning. Yes, they are up 1.3% over the previous month and 1.9% over a year ago. A year ago, [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 3:14pm EST
  

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• Soros continues drive to control the votes by taking control of Secretary of State offices

  —Bear Creek Ledger

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  The Democrats best friend George Soros and Peter Lewis (Progressive Insurance) have been so successful at stealing elections they’re going to see what other states they can pollute with their voter fraud electoral victories. We saw Minnesota become the last victim with the Al Franken victory in 2008. Soros Eyes Secretaries from [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:02am EST
  by Toni

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• SOCIALIZED MEDICINE

  —For Personal Responsibility

  All this talk about health reform makes a farce of the notion of a "public option" that will simply provide competition to keep private insurance companies honest. What politicians can and will do is continue to drive up the cost of private insurance until it is no longer viable. A [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:07pm EST
  by alanrph

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• Two good paragraphs

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  The individual insurance mandate, then, is a solution to a problem the bill itself would create. The authors invoke the Commerce Clause to protect interstate commerce from a threat they themselves pose to it. They could avert the threat simply by not imposing guaranteed-issue on insurers.From Sheldon Richman today. [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:01pm EST
  

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